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![Becoming White Elk: The Bizarre Adventures of the Jazz Age’s Greatest Imposter]()
Becoming White Elk: The Bizarre Adventures of the Jazz Age’s Greatest Imposter
Becoming White Elk: The Bizarre Adventures of the Jazz Age’s Greatest Imposter
The spellbinding tale of hustler Edgar Laplante—the king of Jazz Age con artists—who becomes Chief White Elk the war hero, sports star, civil rights campaigner, Cherokee nation leader—and total fraud. Paul Willetts brings this previously untold story to life in all its surprising absurdity.
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![No Asylum with Eva Schloss and Paula Fouce]()
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![Thinking on Sunday: The Death of the Gods – The New Global Power Grab]()
Thinking on Sunday: The Death of the Gods – The New Global Power Grab
Thinking on Sunday: The Death of the Gods – The New Global Power Grab
From a cyber-crime raid in suburbia to the engine rooms of Silicon Valley, and from the digital soldiers of Berkshire to the hackers of Las Vegas, pioneering technology researcher Carl Miller traces how power – the most important currency of all – is being transformed, fought over, won and lost.
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![It’s Never Too Late]()
It’s Never Too Late
It’s Never Too Late
Eddie was the oldest British women to complete an Ironman Triathalon and founded her company Silverfit to promote lifelong fitness - we are thrilled to have her speaking at this Sunday Assembly! Hosted by comedian and presenter Rufus Hound and Your Friend The Poet will be doing poetry.
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![Aligning Heart and Mind to Heal and Thrive]()
Aligning Heart and Mind to Heal and Thrive
Aligning Heart and Mind to Heal and Thrive
Irrespective of profession, age, culture or sexuality, the journey towards embracing who we really are can be the hardest process in life, and never ends.For over a decade, Dr Magdalena Bak-Maier has been developing and experimenting with how to connect heart and mind, body and spirit for personal empowerment. This process creates lasting transformation, effective behaviour change and even healing. Her techniques are easy to learn and implement.
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![Open Mic]()
Open Mic
Open Mic
This is a new idea which we're hoping will be popular. We've had a number requests from members for an opportunity to come forward and give a talk or present their ideas to the group on their chosen subject. Member speakers Derek Lennard, Sapna Ramnan, Lindsay Nance and Peter Logan will each be given 15 minutes, 10 for their talk and 5 for Q&A.
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![The Hive Café]()
The Hive Café
The Hive Café
Please note there will be reduced opening hours throughout August. Click here for details.
Our new, ground floor cafe, now officially open to everyone with an appetising variety of food, drinks, hexagonal biscuits and honey… plus a live feed from our rooftop beehive!In person | Virtual event
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![Thinking on Sunday: Turning The Tide On Plastic]()
Thinking on Sunday: Turning The Tide On Plastic
Thinking on Sunday: Turning The Tide On Plastic
Journalist, broadcaster and eco lifestyle expert Lucy Siegle provides a powerful call to arms to end the plastic pandemic along with the tools we need to make decisive change. It is a clear-eyed, authoritative and accessible guide to help us to take decisive and effective personal action.
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![Creative writing workshop – Victorian Blogging]()
Creative writing workshop – Victorian Blogging
Creative writing workshop – Victorian Blogging
Conway Hall’s nineteenth century pamphlet collection and putting ourselves in the shoes of radical pamphleteers such as Annie Besant, Ernestine Rose, Thomas Paine and Richard Carlile. Sharing their thoughts on topics such as women’s rights, freedom of the press, contraception and suffrage, we will inhabit their lives, creating poetry, short stories and blog posts to form an online exhibition.
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![OPEN 2018 – Platform Co-ops]()
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![London National Park City Fair]()
London National Park City Fair
London National Park City Fair
The London National Park City is a movement to make the capital greener, healthier and wilder. For one of the greenest cities in Europe this is a chance to connect Londoners and London’s many visitors to the outdoors, and for the city to lead the way on sustainability, biodiversity and the environment. We will be kicking off the week with the first ever London National Park City Fair. Organised by the National Park City Foundation, this is a free event with lots of interesting groups, speakers and ideas.
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![Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?]()
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![Is Fake Information Destroying Democracy?]()
Is Fake Information Destroying Democracy?
Is Fake Information Destroying Democracy?
Thomas Jefferson once observed that "information is the currency of democracy." If this is right, what happens when that currency is corrupted by bad information — alternative facts, fake news, conspiracy theories and pseudo-science? This is the question that Mike Flood will pose in this talk.
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![BME Community Assets: People, Places and Next Generation Leadership]()
BME Community Assets: People, Places and Next Generation Leadership
BME Community Assets: People, Places and Next Generation Leadership
The Ubele Initiative in Partnership with Conway Hall Ethical Society invites you to join us for lunch followed by presentations and a conversation!
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![Will Democracy Survive The Age Of Big Data & Artificial Intelligence?]()
Will Democracy Survive The Age Of Big Data & Artificial Intelligence?
Will Democracy Survive The Age Of Big Data & Artificial Intelligence?
Join us for a discussion with David Wood, Indra Adnan and Dr Lina Dencik about whether the age of big data and artificial intelligence will mean the demise of democracy as decisions are taken over by the algorithms of these techniques.
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![Thinking on Sunday: The Almighty Dollar]()
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![Sunday Assembly: When Life Gives You Lemons]()
Sunday Assembly: When Life Gives You Lemons
Sunday Assembly: When Life Gives You Lemons
Life can be hard. The question is: how can we deal with it? Our guest speaker comedian Beth Vyse knows all about this, and will be bringing an honest and humorous account of her experiences in being diagnosed with breast cancer at 28 and how her ability to laugh at it all got her through.
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![ONE LIFE: A FREE CONCERT CELEBRATING THE ONE LIFE THAT WE HAVE]()
ONE LIFE: A FREE CONCERT CELEBRATING THE ONE LIFE THAT WE HAVE
ONE LIFE: A FREE CONCERT CELEBRATING THE ONE LIFE THAT WE HAVE
An evening of music and comedy with The London Humanist Choir, the UK's foremost community atheist, humanist, and secular choir. Guests include Guardian journalist, stand-up, and singer-songwriter Ariane Sherine, stand-up comedian Alasdair Beckett-King, Steve Cross (founder of Science Show-off) and pianist and singer Alex J Hall.
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![One Life: An Evening of Music & Comedy]()
One Life: An Evening of Music & Comedy
One Life: An Evening of Music & Comedy
The London Humanist Choir presents One Life, our annual evening of music and comedy ‘in celebration of the one life we have’. It’s the climax to a busy year of rehearsals and concerts by the UK’s foremost community atheist, humanist, and secular choir.
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![Happy Together: How to Improve your Relationships with Positive Psychology]()
Happy Together: How to Improve your Relationships with Positive Psychology
Happy Together: How to Improve your Relationships with Positive Psychology
Join us for an inspiring evening to discover the secrets of happy relationships and learn practical ways to put these into practice.
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![Rise Like Lions: Poetry Reading Compiled by Ben Okri]()
Rise Like Lions: Poetry Reading Compiled by Ben Okri
Rise Like Lions: Poetry Reading Compiled by Ben Okri
Join us to celebrate Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri’s new book Rise Like Lions: Poetry for the Many in an evening of poetry and protest. Readers include: Tariq Ali, David Calder, Laurie Penny, Helena Kennedy and more…
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![LSP Summer School 2018]()
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![Understanding Humanism Teachers Conference 2018]()
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![how to: An Evening with former President of Pakistan General Musharraf in conversation with Yalda Hakim]()
how to: An Evening with former President of Pakistan General Musharraf in conversation with Yalda Hakim
how to: An Evening with former President of Pakistan General Musharraf in conversation with Yalda Hakim
An Evening with former President of Pakistan General Musharraf in conversation with Yalda Hakim
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![Thinking on Sunday: Vaccination Myths]()
Thinking on Sunday: Vaccination Myths
Thinking on Sunday: Vaccination Myths
Why do people not vaccinate themselves or their children? Dr Andrea Kitta’s research draws on ethnography, media, Internet and narrative analyses to explore the vernacular explanations used in inoculation decision-making.
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![The Haunted City: Modern Monsters and Urban Legends]()
The Haunted City: Modern Monsters and Urban Legends
The Haunted City: Modern Monsters and Urban Legends
Join the London Fortean Society in London’s dark heart for a day of modern monsters and urban myth. Our cityscapes are full of strange wonders, terrors and tales. Talks include tales of Spring-heeled Jack, Slenderman, subterranean lore, the Crying Boy and the Hackney Bear.
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![Magick and Power in the Age of Trump]()
Magick and Power in the Age of Trump
Magick and Power in the Age of Trump
Come and take a drop down the rabbit hole of occult politics in the twenty-first century with Gary Lachman and find out the post-truths and alternative facts surrounding the 45th President of the United States.
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![The women musicians of Conway Hall’s past]()
The women musicians of Conway Hall’s past
The women musicians of Conway Hall’s past
Join us for a special concert as we celebrate the special platform that Conway Hall provided for women musicians during the first few decades of the Sunday Concerts, since it began in 1887 under the previous name of the South Place Sunday Popular Concerts.
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![Sounds For Syria]()
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![Suffragette City: an alternative history]()
Suffragette City: an alternative history
Suffragette City: an alternative history
Through an interactive classroom session followed by a guided walk, David Rosenberg explores the complex and conflicted history of women’s battle for equality and political rights, how it was connected to the wider struggle to advance democracy, the birth of feminism, and women’s fights for equality and dignity in the workplace
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![Conway Hall Book Club – Yugoslavia, My Fatherland by Goran Vojnovic]()
Conway Hall Book Club – Yugoslavia, My Fatherland by Goran Vojnovic
Conway Hall Book Club – Yugoslavia, My Fatherland by Goran Vojnovic
This month we will be reading Yugoslavia, My Fatherland by Goran Vojnovic (who will be at this event), which deals intimately with the tragic fates of the people who managed to avoid the bombs, but were unable to escape the Yugoslavian civil war.
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![Tibet: Human Rights and Independence]()
Tibet: Human Rights and Independence
Tibet: Human Rights and Independence
At this event we will examine the social justice and human rights situation in Tibet, and what conscientious positions we can take in this respect. We will be joined by Eleanor Byrne-Rosengren and John Jones, respectively director, and campaigns and communications manager, for the UK non-profit Free Tibet.
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![Shore 2 Shore with Carol Ann Duffy]()
Shore 2 Shore with Carol Ann Duffy
Shore 2 Shore with Carol Ann Duffy
An evening with Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and fellow poets Gillian Clarke (National Poet of Wales, 2008-2016), Imtiaz Dharker, Jackie Kay (Scots Makar) and guest poet Maura Dooley, with musical interludes from MC John Sampson.
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![Concrete & Chintz]()
Concrete & Chintz
Concrete & Chintz
'Seven years ago I moved down from Yorkshire to London, and began painting canvasses. My work is inspired by the lines, textures, and reflected light of the city, the ever changing mirror of the River Thames, and the mesmerising dazzle of the City at night'.
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![Thinking on Sunday: Alt-Right – From 4chan to the White House]()
Thinking on Sunday: Alt-Right – From 4chan to the White House
Thinking on Sunday: Alt-Right – From 4chan to the White House
This talk from Mike Wendling is a vital guide to understanding the Alt-Right - the white nationalist, misogynist, far-right movement that found a voice on 4chan then rose to prominence during Donald Trump's successful election campaign in the United States.
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![Radical Sobriety]()
Radical Sobriety
Radical Sobriety
Any talk of revolution is incomplete without recovery. Drug and alcohol use dominates perception of social interactions and political actions, from the inside and the outside. It also dominates the lives of many within activist circles. Join a group of activists in recovery for a discussion about Radical Sobriety. Part of Antiuniversity Now Festival 2018.
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![Spiridonova: Armed Love]()
Spiridonova: Armed Love
Spiridonova: Armed Love
Join Rita Raven Production & Class War for a screening of 'Spiridonova: Armed Love'. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Murray Healy, Producer Ian Bone and Justine Fernandes, who plays Maria. Part of Antiuniversity Now Festival 2018.
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![The science of happiness and wellbeing: How to catch the butterfly]()
The science of happiness and wellbeing: How to catch the butterfly
The science of happiness and wellbeing: How to catch the butterfly
In this talk, Andy Gibson, founder of Mindapples, looks at the science of happiness and wellbeing, how to get it, and how to be happy without ignoring the sad times, too.
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![Women’s Studies Without Walls (WSWW)]()
Women’s Studies Without Walls (WSWW)
Women’s Studies Without Walls (WSWW)
The proposed introductory session with the Feminist Library would revisit the Consciousness Raising practice of the Second Wave of the feminist movement, to bring together a discussion on feminist issues through a 'personal is political' lens creating a bottom-up, all-inclusive learning environment. Part of Antiuniversity Now Festival 2018.
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![Transforming Early Memory Metaphors in Psychotherapy]()
Transforming Early Memory Metaphors in Psychotherapy
Transforming Early Memory Metaphors in Psychotherapy
In this practical lecture, leading Adlerian psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor, Anthea Millar, will outline the principles of transforming early memory metaphors so that clients can use them to address current problems and will illustrate its practice through live demonstration.
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![No More Children]()
No More Children
No More Children
I don't mind children, really. But what I mind is a logic of compulsive, reproductive futurity, which seems to permeate everything and control my life, even when I walk down the pavement. Join performance maker, writer and teacher, Eirini Kartsaki for a discussion. Part of Antiuniversity Now Festival 2018.
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![Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life]()
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? How did the octopus become so smart? What is it like to have eight tentacles that are so packed with neurons that they virtually ‘think for themselves’?
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![Inspired by…Mompou]()
Inspired by…Mompou
Inspired by…Mompou
Pianist Maria Canyigueral presents 'Avant-guarding Mompou', an exploration of Spanish composer and pianist Frederic Mompou and his Cançons i danses, as part of the Inspired by... series of concerts organised by EUNIC (European Union of National Institutes of Culture) which present new creations by composers from the EU inspired by great European composers.
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![Cognitive Symbol Mechanics: Alchemy for Creative Problem Solving]()
Cognitive Symbol Mechanics: Alchemy for Creative Problem Solving
Cognitive Symbol Mechanics: Alchemy for Creative Problem Solving
Can alchemy be used for creative problem solving? This hands-on symbol development workshop investigates. The Institute for Social Morphology and Dream Development is a non-existent entity intended to bring about really existing transformations in the world. Part of Antiuniversity Now Festival 2018.
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![What happened to the Revolution?]()
What happened to the Revolution?
What happened to the Revolution?
Anarchist communists believe firmly in the possibility of working class revolution. This talk/discussion with the Anarchist Communist Group will first present anarchist communist ideas on revolution before opening up to general discussion about revolution today. Part of Antiuniversity Now Festival 2018.
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![No Gods, No Masters]()
No Gods, No Masters
No Gods, No Masters
This discussion meeting with the Rebel City Collective will consider why anarchists reject religion and then open up the discussion about what strategies we can adopt for challenging religion in our society. Part of Antiuniversity Now Festival 2018.
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![Mustard: Knowledge for What?]()
Mustard: Knowledge for What?
Mustard: Knowledge for What?
John Haynes presents the documentary project, 'Mustard: Knowledge for What?', which weaves together a series of filmed life story interviews with participants and archival documents. Part of Antiuniversity Now Festival 2018.
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![Talking to your GP about Mental Health]()
Talking to your GP about Mental Health
Talking to your GP about Mental Health
A workshop with occupational therapist Georgia Twigg on preparing yourself to speak to your doctor or GP about your mental health, to help get the relevant information across succinctly to have the best chance of an appropriate referral or prescription. Part of Antiuniversity Now Festival 2018.
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